On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 02:15:05PM +0100, R A Brown wrote:
> Your own people's foundation in myth in verse - now that's a
> thought! I so often wish Tolkien's Silmarillion had
> been a verse epic in Quenya, instead of the (disappointing
> to me) posthumous publication by Christopher Tolkien {sigh}.
I despair of ever achieving such a thing. When I compose in
merechi, it's like I'm a 9-year-old again. I have no fluency.
I come up with mechanical, over-literal turns of phrase.
There's no poetry.
The trials of being under-fluent in your own creation...
tylakèhlpë'fö,
Amanda